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Originally Posted by SlackDad
I didn't watch it so I can't really comment, but does anyone know whether the battery of preshow tests included intelligence.
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Often, the more intelligent are actually easier to con.
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Heard someone saying on the radio that if the contestants had any sense they would know that a flight to Moscow takes longer than 4 hours, that Moscow is currently -3 degrees rather than the 'balmy' 8 in Suffolk, and that the signs at a Russian airfield would not all look brand new and not be written in both Russian and English. Seems like a fair comment to me  . |
As with most deceptions, as long as you start with something entirely believable, then once people have bought into it you can get more ridiculous as time goes on and they just won't notice.
How many people know the flying time to Moscow? Not many.
As for the temperature - yeah I'd say that could be a giveaway, but I'm sure they'll just blame it on global warming or an unseasonally warm winter. Again, I doubt few of them have any idea what the typical weather is in whatever part of Russia they're supposed to be in. (Did they say Moscow? Russia is HUGE and I'm sure there's parts of it where it is even warmer than in Suffolk.)